I have my sons review coming up in 2 weeks time and I am so nervous...

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For those that don't know what I have been going through with my son over the last few years I will try and fill you in briefly. He has always struggled at school, infact it started at nursery when he couldn't cope emotionally and socially. Once at school it was noticed and he had an assessment, though nothing happened. He struggled through without much support. Once he was in his third year at school, they decided to ask me to get him help via a doctor for a re-assessment. We went to see CAMSS first, and the lady we saw after an assessment asked if I had considered the condition ASD (autism). I had never really heard about this condition, but I went home and researched it. My son fit into the spectrum, infact it explained almost everything. So I asked my doctor for a referral for an assessment for ASD. We saw a phychiatrist. Infact we have seen the same child phyciatrist 4 times now and still no proper diognoses. But we had a full assessment done by a speech and language therapist about 5 months ago. This is the reason for the review. We have had to wait 5 months for an appointment after the assessment, to find out how it went. This will be the last appointment. If he doesn't get a diognoses then he may lose the vital support he has in place at school, it will also mean the school will not put him forward for a statement of educational needs, which he also needs and will be another battle after this one. My son is nearly 10 so you can see it has taken a very long time just to get a full assessment done and a diognoses considered. Despite the fact both myself and the school knew something was up. Has anyone else had a similar battle? I